How do various societies construct gender identities, sexual practices, and gendered bodies? Compare and contrast the religious, cultural, economic, and other factors that produce these different identities and practices. Discuss the novel Middlesex and at least three of the following texts: Mora, Peteet, Jackson, Jacobson, Bilu, Kaplan, Procter-Smith, Santos, Abu-Lughod, Haddad, Thompson, Salamandra, Kang, Goel.
